Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parties, unfinished drinks be refilled and passed off as fresh if they "didn't have lipstick marks on the edge." Mrs. Gallagher also reports that Jackie once sold an aquamarine from the Brazilian government and a diamond-clip wedding present from her father-in-law in order to buy a $6,160 antique sunburst pin she had seen in London. On another occasion, says Mrs. Gallagher, it took powerful persuasion to prevent Jackie from removing the diamonds in a sword given by Saudi Arabia's King Saud. The installment ends at Christmastime 1962, with Jackie embracing Mrs. Gallagher...
...Pontiac Firebird with a 400-h.p. engine that he souped up himself. When his cars or his job preoccupy him so much that Grace complains, he told TIME Miami Bureau Chief Joseph Kane, he may react by saying: "I want you to be happy. Here is some money. Go buy yourself a mink stole or something...
...public's affection for the bestseller was pallid compared with Wayne's. The Duke offered to buy the screen rights for $300,000. "I knew right away that Rooster Cogburn was a character that fit my pistol," he said. "He even felt the same way about life. He did not believe in pampering wrongdoers." Eventually, Producer Hal Wallis outbid Wayne-but Wallis provided an appropriately happy ending by hiring the superstar to play the role...
...week, over the Fourth of July, thousands of Americans will visit the two remaining active Shaker communities-near Portland, Me., and Canterbury, N.H.-as well as others in Pleasant Hill, Ky., Old Chatham, N.Y., and Hancock, Mass., where original Shaker buildings have been converted into museums. There they can buy Shaker jams, inspect Shaker houses, recapture a whiff of that eternal Shaker afternoon...
While these moves have bruised feelings on all sides, no dispute is quite as emotional or contentious as that between the U.S. and Japan. The Japanese used to buy far more from America than they sold, but last year they sold $1.1 billion more to the U.S. than they bought (see chart, page 72). That was possibly the biggest trade deficit that the U.S. has ever registered with any nation. Altogether, Japan's exports in 1968 rose by 25%, and its shipments to the U.S. accounted for more than two-fifths of the gain. The reason, many aggrieved...